Chapter 307: The Last Dignity
Unexpectedly, everyone thought of many possibilities, but they still never expected that the most significant discovery after they continued to excavate the underground palace was not how many treasures there were, nor how many sand coins they found.
Instead, he found an underground granary, the granary is so large, Mo said that the population size of Gubao City in the past, even if it is the population of Jizhou City now, the grain stored in this granary is enough for the people of the city to eat for a few years.
"Is this a stone or a charcoal?"
Yu Jiuling squatted in front of a grain hoard and looked at it, opened the floodgates of the grain hoard, and the grain did not flow out, and stabbing it with a stick was similar to the feeling of stabbing on a stone.
Xiahou Zhuo looked at Li Qi and said, "Who disliked the dry food of the march last time?" ”
Li Qi also squatted there, looking at the grain stored in this grain hoard, and said in his heart that if these things could be carried out when defending the city, they could indeed be used as stones to smash the enemy, and maybe they would be poisonous.
"What a pity."
Yu Jiuling said: "The grain stored here, the people in Jizhou City can't eat it for a few years, so it's so wasted." ”
"It's been at least a thousand years."
Xiahou sighed: "It's not easy for this grain hoard to be preserved so well. ”
In the huge underground palace in front of them, a huge stone grain hoard stood there, like an ancient giant that had been turned into fossils.
And this also positively proves that Dean Gao's words are true, Youshan Country is really not a small country, this is not the granary on the surface of Baocheng at the beginning, but the granary of the underground palace, the grain storage is so huge, you can imagine how strong the national strength of Youshan Country was at that time, and it is not a fantasy to be able to divide the Iron Crane Department into two.
"Keep looking."
Yu Jiuling sighed and said, "Judging from these grains, it's good that we can have that pile of placer gold harvest." ”
Yu Jiuling, who was still high in morale, was almost out of spirit after seeing this granary.
Fortunately, now they have the drawings of the underground palace in their hands, and Li Qi redrew a brief copy according to the old map, which is not so detailed, but the terrain structure is basically complete.
Dig out the granary, and then go inside should be the armory.
"Strange or not?"
Tang Pidi asked Li Qi: "Until now, we haven't seen a single corpse, if the last generation of the emperor of Youshan Kingdom and his entourage all died in the underground palace, there must be a large number of corpses, we found the armor of the Seven Divine Generals, but we didn't find the corpse." ”
Li Qi nodded and said, "Maybe they are all buried in one place." ”
Back then, the emperor of Youshan Kingdom, Tuoba Zheng, brought the last group of loyal subordinates into the underground palace to hide, and no one knew how many years they had lived in this dark and closed environment, and they were desperate to survive in a helpless and fearful mood, dying one by one.
The last person to die should have been painful, and he may have been involved in burying everyone but himself.
When there was only one person left in this huge dungeon, how did he spend his last life?
Li Qi and the others carried torches through the huge granary, and then appeared in front of them a passage, the passage was very spacious, at least a large car could pass smoothly.
"It's a gentle ramp."
Tang Pidi looked forward, his face changing slightly.
"This is the lower grain road, and it was from this that the grain was transported into the granary, which means ......"
Li Qi immediately said: "This ramp can go straight to the ground. ”
They suddenly became interested, they have been in the underground palace for so long, at this time the position of Jizhou City above their heads, in fact, it is not easy to testify, if there is a ramp that can go directly to the ground, then where the location becomes interesting.
Because once Jizhou is breached, or it is besieged
, This underground palace has become very important, and the ramp leading to the outside is of course even more important, they have long made a plan to hide at least 3,000 soldiers in Jizhou City, and now there is a place to hide soldiers.
Three thousand fine armor, you can kill from the ramp, and if the exit location is near the city gate, it will be interesting.
They walked along the ramp for about two miles, and the answer appeared in front of everyone, the grain road was over, and the front was blocked by a boulder, and they couldn't get out.
"Let's go back."
Li Qi shook his head, feeling a little regretful in his heart, if this ramp can still be passed, it can really be used.
They walked back the way they came, passing the passage of the armory before and not entering, just to see where the ramp eventually led.
When they came back and entered the armory, everyone was stunned.
This huge armory is lined with rows of extremely neat weapon racks, because they are made of stone so they have not collapsed, but the weapons leaning on these weapons racks have all decayed, basically all weapons are so-called spears, and the spear heads are extremely small, which shows how scarce iron was back then.
They passed through rows and rows of weapon racks, and finally came to an open field, and then everyone stopped in unison.
In the open space, like weapon racks, row after row, neat and tidy, are corpses.
There were probably hundreds of people, and their final choice was to commit suicide in this collective, everyone had weapons around them, and the corpses fell in different directions, but the queue was so neat.
Li Qi stood there, feeling a little difficult to breathe.
"This may be the last self-esteem of these soldiers."
He stood solemnly, then bowed down.
Everyone bowed down with him, and they didn't know why, no one felt that they shouldn't salute, even Yu Jiuling felt that these corpses were worthy of respect.
These last few hundred people did not choose to die of old age, they should all be soldiers, and when the last general died, they lost their last leader, so they chose to end their lives here.
Opposite the corpses of these soldiers, there were rows of stone platforms, which were poorly built, and on each stone platform lay a corpse, unlike the soldiers who committed suicide, these remains were lying flat.
Li Qi and the others straightened up, and when they walked forward again, they saw that there were military uniforms and armor on those stone platforms, all of which were well placed, and the military uniforms still maintained their original folded appearance, and it was estimated that they would break if they touched it.
On the largest stone platform, the corpse they saw should be Tuoba Zheng's, and next to this stone platform, there are seven stone platforms arranged according to the position of the Big Dipper, and there are corpses on them, which can be inferred that they are the seven gods of the Youshan Country back then.
Next to Tuoba Zheng's corpse was a barely recognizable dragon crown, a symbol of the emperor's status.
There was a wooden box next to the crown, the box had been scattered, and there was something in the box that was still tightly wrapped, Li Qi went over, carefully took out the thing and untied it, and took out a scroll made of unknown leather.
Unfolding the volume, Li Qi looked at it for a while and then exhaled heavily.
"The martial arts that Dean Gao said about the seven gods who will join forces to create can make people invincible in the world is not a martial art practiced by individuals, but an art of war."
He handed the volume to Xiahou Zhuo, who sighed after looking at it a few times.
"It's a pity that they can't be invincible in the world, no matter how invincible the art of war, the country is already incomplete, internal and external troubles, and there is no use."
Xiahou Zhuo handed the volume of the Art of War to Tang Pidi, but Tang Pidi did not look at it immediately, but wrapped the volume again with something, as if he was holding some peerless treasure.
Yu Jiuling looked at the crown and said, "This thing should be very valuable." ”
Li Qi shook his head and said, "Don't touch it, put it here."
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Yu Jiuling snorted, turned around and went somewhere else to continue searching.
On the wall opposite Li Qi, there is a huge map of Kanyu carved, which is exquisitely carved and ingenious, which is probably the territory of the heyday of the Youshan Kingdom.
Li Qi turned around and said, "Go and help me get a pen and paper, I want to draw this picture." ”
Xiahou said: "This picture is already a thousand years ago. ”
Li Qi said: "The name of the place will change, the place will not change, this picture is useful." ”
At this moment, Yu Jiuling shouted in the distance: "There is still gold placer here!" ”
Except for Li Qi and Tang Pidi, everyone else ran over, Li Qi was waiting for paper and pen, and Tang Pidi's gaze finally stayed in one place.
"It turns out that the Yanshan Ancient Road is real."
He pointed to a place: "I heard a rumor on the grassland that in order to defeat the Iron Crane Tribe, the Emperor of Youshan Country once ordered to recruit the craftsmen of the whole country to open a small road on Yan Mountain, which took seven or eight years, and then used this mountain road to enter the grassland, attacked the rear of the Iron Crane Tribe, and defeated the Iron Crane Department in one fell swoop. ”
He looked at Li Qi and said, "You should immediately send someone to find Brother Yu, so that he must find this ancient road." ”
Li Qi nodded: "Understood." ”
On Yu Jiuling's side, they found some stone barrels, which contained gold placer, but the amount was obviously not as large as those found in the underground palace outside, and it was unknown what the use of these placer gold in the stone barrels was.
Yu Jiuling said: "Don't care so much for now, take it away." ”
The men began to put the gold dust into the basket, there was a row of nine stone barrels here, all of which were not very large, and when they held the gold placer out a little bit, there was a slight clicking sound under the stone barrels, and someone looked at it and found that the stone barrels seemed to be higher than just now.
Hearing the voice, Li Qi glanced back, and at the moment he turned around, he saw one of the stone barrels slowly moving up because of the lightening weight.
"Put it back!"
Li Qi immediately exclaimed.
But it was already late, and the entire armory seemed to shake slightly, Li Qi and Tang Pi glanced at each other, and then shouted at the same time.
"Run!"
Yu Jiuling was startled, he pulled the two people around him and turned around and ran, and Xiahou Zhuo was the same, shouting for people to hurry up and run out.
"Don't ask for all that dust, throw it away, run!"
When Li Qi saw that there were still people who wanted to carry the basket, his eyes were red, and he shouted in a hoarse voice for them to run.
A group of people ran out of the armory as fast as they could, and not long after, the armory shook again, and all the stone barrels that had been lightened were lifted, and a huge and heavy gate fell with a bang, sealing the armory.
If it weren't for Li Qi looking back, they might all be sealed in the armory forever, that mechanism can only be used once, and they can't get up if the gate is lowered, and if the people who are sealed inside can come out by restoring the position of the stone barrel, what is the point of this sealing door.
Everyone stood and watched the huge sealing stone fall, and they all had palpitations.
"If you are not greedy, you will not be blocked."
Yu Jiuling said to herself: "Even if you only take the placer gold in a stone bucket, maybe nothing will happen......
His face turned pale, as if he had realized something.
Figure ......
Li Qi shook his head and said, "I haven't had time to draw it yet." ”
Tang Pidi smiled and said in a flat tone: "It's okay, I wrote it down." ”
Li Qi asked, "All ...... All? ”
Tang Pidi turned around and said as he walked, "Is there anything strange? It's just thousands of miles away. ”